It’s 5.30pm in the Metro Theatre, and the room is eerily quiet. A roadie is up a ladder, rigging up a final light. A couple of others wheel around gear boxes, unrolling cords as they go. Suddenly the guy up the ladder swears – a cluster of old confetti has been let loose from within the light, showering the tech and drifting slowly down onto…
The festival landscape has undergone major upheaval in the last three years, and Covid’s long-term impact on the music industry…
